The hits just keep on coming at "Mamma Mia!" the hit musical based on songs by supergroup ABBA, which is on stage at the State Theatre in Easton Nov. 5 and 6.
The show is stuffed with 28 song,s such as "Dancing Queen," "Knowing...

'THE GIVER' FILM
1 Based on the book by Lois Lowry, "The Giver" transcends boundaries, telling the story of a utopian society. The story centers on Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. He...

Just two days before her movie "Red Riding Hood" hits theaters on Friday, Allentown native Amanda Seyfried talked to Regis & Kelly on TV this morning about Colin Firth, Catherine Hardwicke, Justin Timberlake, and herself, of course. It was the ...

Just as my movie list two weeks ago honored Mitt Romney by collecting the Best Movies About Extremely Rich People, today’s list is a nod to Barack Obama. We are looking for the Best Movies About Immigrants to the United ...

"THEY FILLED our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend," said Meryl Streep as she prefaced...

Show Bits brings you the 87th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item. ___ LINGERING LOSERS While attendees like Jennifer...

Oscar nominees Meryl Streep, Rosamund Pike, and Laura Dern kicked off their big weekend in style at the eighth annual Women in Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party at Hyde Sunset Kitchen + Cocktails in Los Angeles. Streep had been worried she might miss the...

The new movie version of "Into the Woods" is big in many ways — big stars (Meryl Streep, Chris Pine), big visual effects (giant beanstalk, angry giantess) and big score (booming orchestra that lays on the grandiosity).
The $50 million that...

Twenty-seven years after it first premiered on Broadway, composer Stephen Sondheim and librettist James Lapine's subversive, fairy-tale-based musical "Into the Woods" comes to the screen Dec. 25 under the direction of "Chicago's" Rob...

Benedict Cumberbatch squirms a little bit when he hears the somewhat salty moniker his legion of fans have assigned themselves.
Host Ellen DeGeneres wanted to talk about "Cumberbitches" when "The Imitation Game" star appeared on her...

In the generation since "Into the Woods" opened on Broadway, the entertainment world has recycled a forest's worth of enchantress-based, princess-dependent and fairy tale-steeped mythology for mass consumption, from Disney's "Frozen"...

Part of the subversive appeal of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Into the Woods" is that it gleefully skewers well-known fairy-tale tropes. It's perhaps a bit ironic, then, that film critics are saying the new big-screen adaptation doesn't quite end...

These scenes began flashing through my mind just as the Screen Actors Guild Awards began announcing nominations for performance by a cast in a motion picture:
"Birdman" — actors in constricted spaces using dressing rooms and winding corridors...

"HOLLYWOOD is a dream factory, and nobody dreams about older women!" So said film director Amy Heckerling.
I don't know exactly when Ms. Heckerling made that remark, but recent years have seen something of a reversal. I think about Meryl...

Electrical cords dangled from the ceiling. Tables were stacked against walls, rigging hardware strewn about. Ladders, lots of them, were being climbed by crew members with loud power tools.
Roughly 72 hours before Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney,...

"TO SUCCEED in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence." -- Mark Twain
WELL, the Golden Globe nominations are out, and as usual, some things don't make sense. But I suppose that's the fun of it, yes?
"Birdman" is nominated...

The final installment of the "Hobbit" franchise is likely to top the box office again over the four-day Christmas weekend.
"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" is expected to add $50 million to its current $107.9 million...

WASHINGTON — Tom Hanks was lauded as America's "favorite son" — and one of the greatest of cinema's stars — at a star-spangled Kennedy Center Honors gala on Sunday.
Hanks was honored with four other legends: singer-songwriter Sting,...